William lang



(No-Model.)

W. LANG.

WINDOW SHADE PULL.

No. 299,488. Patented M'ay 27, 1884.

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GOULD it OO., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WINDOW-SHADE PULL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,483, dated May 27,1884. i Application inea April 1s, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM LANG, of

` Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Window-Shade Pulls, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to an ilnprovement in pulls designed to beattached to a stick in the lower edge of a window-shade, so as to form aconvenient means for pulling down the shade and at the same time anornamental attachment to the same; and the invention consists of atubular bar having transverse mortises for the insertion of eyes orlinks, which are passed through such mortises and retained in the bar'bya rod or wire within the same The tubular bar is provided with end tipsthat are screwed to the interior rod. The end tips have cup-shaped basesthat are sprung on the tubular bar. The outer parts of the eyes or linksattached to the bar are suspended by hooks from the eyes attached to thestick of the shade.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front view, partly insection, of my ilnproved window-shade pull; and Fig. 2 is a verticaltransverse section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a metal tube, which forms thebar of my improved shade-pull. The tube is preferably splitlongitudinally throughout its entire length. Through the tube A passescentrally a rod, B, whichis screw-threaded at each end, and providedwith ornamental end tips, C C, that are screwed onto the ends of the rodB. The rod B is also passed through eyes or links-a a, which areinserted through transverse mortises or slots b b of the bar A, andsuspended by hooks D from screw-eyes (Z of the stick of .thewindow-shade E. The end tips, C, have cup-shaped bases that are sprungon the ends of the split tubular bar A when the tips have been tightlyscrewed up against the ends of the bar A, so that the parts are heldrigidly together. The meeting edges of the split bar A are preferablylocated at the bottom, so as to be out of sight.

In disengaging the pull from the shade to clean it, or for any otherpurpose, the bar A is lnoved up at one side close to the stick, and onesuspension-hook detached from its screweye d, after which the othersuspension-hook can be readily disengaged. By reversing the operationthe shade-pull is attached again. The hooks D engage the screw-eyes d inthe stick of the shade, the hook ends facing each other, so as toprevent them from becoming disengaged by the lateral motion of the pull.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. lThe combination, with a tubular shade bar or pulleyhaving transverse slots or mortises, of links or eyes passing throughsaid mortises, and a rod within the tubular bar for securing the linksthereto, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a tubular shadebar, of a central rod passingthrough the bar, andof end tips attached to the ends of the rod,substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with a tubular shadebar, of eyes or links passingthrough mortises of the bar, a rod within the bar for holding same, andend tips attached to the ends of the rod, substantially as described.

4. The combination, in a shade-pull, of a tubular bar, links or eyespassing through mortises of the bar, a rod passing longitudinallythrough said bar and said links or eyes, and end tips attached to theends of the rod, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination of atubular bar having transverse mortises, eyes orlinks passing through said Inortises, a rod passing through said bar andsaid eyes or links, and end tips attached to the ends of said rod andfitting Y by cup-shaped bases over the ends of the bar, substantially asset forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VILLIAM LANG.

lVitnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, SIDNEY MANN.

